China begins congress for leadership transition

A once in a decade power transfer begins in China Thursday with the opening of it’s 18th Congress.  President Hu Jintao opens the congress with a work report on achievements and future goals.  The 18th party Congress, says its spokesman, “will be one of great importance, when China is in a crucial stage of building a modern and prosperous society in all respects, taking on reform and opening up, and accelerating the transformation of the growth pattern.”  This is a China growing into its own skin and facing its own deep-seated problems, including corruption.


Read more on the BBC and CNN, and watch Rappler’s Editor-at-large Marites Vitug’s vlog about corruption in China.